Monday, August 10, 2009

According to this thread over on KVR, D16 Group, who have famously modeled some other classic Roland gear, may be working on an SH-101 clone called Sh101tor (or is it 'Shioiter'?!). This shot of the interface shows expanded features over the real thing, much like their previous emulations. If this is anywhere near the level of quality of their previous products (and there's no reason to think it won't be), this is going to be an essential. I love my 101, and although others have tried emulating it in software form, so far no one has really captured the sound of the real deal. I suspect D16 might just be the ones to do it right.

Yeah, that's be a shame. It's funny because when I emailed Sebastian at D16 to let him know the last review was up, I said I hoped they'd do a 101 emulator. Little did I know, they were way ahead of me. But yeah, this'll make me very happy if it sounds like the real deal.